The Journey Arcade Game (Bally Midway, 1983)

Does anyone remember the Journey arcade game from Bally Midway? It was released in the arcades in 1983, during the peak of the band's popularity.


You play as each of the five group members, each stage set to a rendition of one of the band's songs, picking up the instrument associated with each of them. The list of what to collect and which band member:
Microphone: Steve Perry
Guitar: Neal Schon
Bass: Ross Valory
Drums: Steve Smith
Piano: Jonathan Cain
After all five of these tasks are successfully completed, you are treated to a short video of the band playing a concert. However, due to the shortcomings of the built-in cassette players in these arcade machines, they are typically in non-working condition.

While the semi-related Atari 2600 game Journey: Escape was released a year before the arcade version, Coleco, which bought the home console rights soon after the arcade version's release, was to have ported that to its ColecoVision for a possible 1984 release.

~Ben

 

Check this video out.

 

I played it a few times but was terrible at it. Surprised it was never released on a Bally comp disc for Play Station but it would probably require some type of extra licensing.

I had the 2600 version of Escape. Fun for what it was at the time.

 

Journey Frontiers-an album so good it had its own video game.

 

I played that 2600 game too. Run around the barricades avoiding groupies and wait for the roadie to show up(Kool Aid Man Oh YEAH!)

 

We had the Atari version. It was a fun one.

 

I haven't seen a "Journey Escape" game in dog years, but I remember trying it a few times in the arcade back in the day a few times... I stunk at it.

When I was in college in the late '80s I frequented a record store in NYC ("It's Only Rock and Roll") which had a little "rock & roll game room" in the back with a "Journey Escape" machine and KISS, Rolling Stones and Ted Nugent pinball machines. My buddy and I always made sure we brought a few quarters with us when we visited there

 

That was a great idea by the store owner! I love it! I wish more record stores did that.

 

I played it a few times back in ~1984, but even then Journey was considered kind of lame and I didn't want anyone I knew to see me playing it.

 

My Mame pc is being delivered tomorrow. Will be interested to see if its on there.

 

I guess being one of the top bands in the world at the time made you lame.

And you conforming to others also meant you were not lame.

 

I was 15. Give me a break.